A Beautiful Mind (2001) Trailer Directed by Ron Howard Produced by Brian Grazer | Ron Howard Written by Akiva Goldsman Based on A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar Starring Russell Crowe | Ed Harris | Jennifer Connelly Paul Bettany | Adam Goldberg Judd Hirsch | Josh Lucas | Anthony Rapp Christopher Plummer Music by James Horner Production Imagine Entertainment company Distributed by Universal Pictures (North America) DreamWorks Pictures (International) Genres Biography | Drama Country USA Language English Plot John Nash goes through a myriad of highs and lows from his time as a Mathematics student in graduate school at Princeton in the late 1940’s to his Nobel Prize win for Economics in 1994. A brilliant but so- mewhat arrogant and antisocial man, Nash preferred to spend his time with his thoughts, which were primarily of seeing mathematical formula associated with everyday occurrences, than with people. Two people he did make a connection with were Charles, his roommate at Prin- ceton, and Alicia Larde, one of his students when he was teaching at M.I.T. in the early 1950’s. He and Alicia eventually marry. As time goes on, Nash lives more and more within himself which causes major pro- blems in his life. But Alicia stands by her husband to his redemption to the Nobel Prize win. Nash learns that his graduate school colleagues, with whom he had a cordial but somewhat distant relationship, are clo- ser friends than he imagined, although in his later life he really does miss Charles’ company more than anything despite knowing that spending time with Charles is not in his or anyone’s best interest. Everything, Everything (2017) Trailer Directed by Stella Meghie Produced by Elysa Dutton | Leslie Morgenstein Written by J. Mills Goodloe Based on Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon Starring Amandla Stenberg | Nick Robinson Anika Noni Rose | Ana de la Reguera Music by Ludwig Göransson Zedd Production Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer company Alloy Entertainment Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures Genres Drama | Romance Country USA Language English Plot What if you could not contact the outside world? You would never feel the fresh breeze, your face could not bathe in the heat of sunshine ... and wouldn’t you kiss the neighbor boy? Everything is an unconven- tional love story of Maddy, an 18-year-old girl with a sincere, curious and lively imagination, who can’t leave her hermetically sealed home due to illness, and Olly, the next door guy who has been hurting the obstacles. Maddy living in an anxious environment would do anything to expe- rience the outside world and experience her first romance. While wat- ching through the window and communicating through telephone messages, Olly and a deep bond between them are woven; they wo- uld risk everything to be together ... even if they could lose everything. I Am Sam (2001) Trailer Directed by Jessie Nelson Produced by Jessie Nelson | Richard Solomon Edward Zwick | arshall Herskovitz Written by Kristine Johnson | Jessie Nelson Starring Sean Penn | Michelle Pfeiffer | Dianne Wiest Dakota Fanning | Richard Schiff | Loretta Devine Laura Dern Music by John Powell Production The Bedford Falls Company company Distributed by New Line Cinema Genres Drama Country USA Language English Plot Sam Dawson has the mental capacity of a 7-year-old. He works at a Starbucks and is obsessed with the Beatles. He has a daughter with a homeless woman; she abandons them as soon as they leave the hospital. He names his daughter Lucy Diamond (after the Beatles song) and raises her. But as she reaches age 7 herself, Sam’s limitations start to become a problem at school; she’s intentionally holding back to avoid looking smarter than him. The authorities take her away and Sam shames high-priced lawyer Rita Harrison into taking his case pro bono. In the process, he teaches her a great deal about love and whether it’s really all you need. Me Before You (2016) Trailer Directed by Thea Sharrock Produced by Karen Rosenfelt | Alison Owen Written by Jojo Moyes Based on Me Before You by Jojo Moyes Starring Emilia Clarke | Sam Claflin | Jenna Coleman Charles Dance | Janet McTeer | Matthew Lewis Music by Craig Armstrong Production New Line Cinema | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer company Sunswept Entertainment Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures Genres Drama | Romance Country USA Language English | French Plot Young and quirky Louisa „Lou” Clark (Emilia Clarke) moves from one job to the next to help her family make ends meet. Her cheerful attitude is put to the test when she becomes a caregiver for Will Traynor (Sam Claflin), a wealthy young banker left paralyzed from an accident two years earlier. Will’s cynical outlook starts to change when Louisa shows him that life is worth living. As their bond deepens, their lives and hearts change in ways neither one could have imagined. Mozart and the Whale (2005) Trailer Directed by Petter Næss Produced by Danny Dimbort | Manfred D. Heid Frank DeMartini | Robert Lawrence Written by Ronald Bass Starring Josh Hartnett | Radha Mitchell | Gary Cole Sheila Kelley | Erica Leerhsen | John Carroll Lynch Music by Deborah Lurie Production Nu Image company Distributed by Millennium Films Genres Comedy | Drama | Romance Country USA Language English Plot The film tells the story of two people with Asperger syndrome (a form of autism). Donald runs a small self-help group for people on the autism spectrum who are more affected by their autism than he is. Mo- zart and the Whale is a fictional account, using characters loosely ba- sed on the real-life relationship of Jerry Newport and Mary Meinel (now Mary Newport). Donald Morton (Josh Hartnett) is a taxi driver and drives two Ja- panese passengers and his pet cockatiel around Spokane, Washing- ton. Distracted, he bumps into the back of a florist’s van, damaging his stock. Unfazed, Donald and his budgie take their groceries and leave, abandoning his taxi cab and passengers. He takes his groceries to the self-help group for autistic adults. Before they head to the park to meet another autistic group, he tells one member, Gracie (Rusty Schwim- mer), to gather the women and he’ll gather the guys to practice telling personal stories, but keeps getting distracted by performing mathema- tical sums of the microwaves’ depleting numbers. He notices that Isa- belle Sorenson (Radha Mitchell), a new name, has signed up and tells Gracie to let her go first. At the park, Isabelle tells the women of a childhood memory: she saw that her parents were happy an Olympian had broken a record, so in order to please her parents, and taking what she heard literally, she broke their music records. Donald tells his story to the men about his ability to do complex sums but couldn’t make friends. Isabelle goes on to tell of when she was raped when she went hitch-hiking. This causes Gracie to laugh manically. Heard by Donald, he tries to calm an angry Isabelle down and they find that they have much in common and take a liking to each other. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) Trailer Directed by Miloš Forman Produced by Saul Zaentz | Michael Douglas Written by Lawrence Hauben | Bo Goldman Based on One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey Starring Jack Nicholson | Louise Fletcher | William Redfield Music by Jack Nitzsche Production Fantasy Films company Distributed by United Artists Genres Drama Country USA Language English Plot In Oregon on the year 1963 recidivist criminal Randle McMurphy is moved to a mental institution after serving a short sentence for rape of a 15-year old, but McMurphy isn’t actually mentally ill he just want to aviod hard labor. Randle quickly becomes friends with stuttering Charlie Che- swick, delusional Martini, „Chief” Bromden, a very tall Native American believed to be deaf and mute and many others. One day he steals the hospital bus and goes with several patients on a fishing trip to encourage them to be more self-confident. The main character finds out that his sen- tence may be indefinite so he plans to escape he also finds out that him Chief and Taber are the only non-chronic patients sentenced to staying at the institution, as the rest are selfcommitted and could voluntarily chec- k-out at any time, but are too afraid to do so. While trying to get back his confiscated cigarettes McMurphy discovers Chief can actually speak de- spite feigning being deaf and mute to avoid engaging with anyone. After being subjected to electroshock therapy McMurphy pretends to have brain damage. McMurphy and Chief make plans to escape, but decide to throw a secret Christmas par- ty for their friends after nurses leaves for the night. McMurphy sneaks two women, Candy and Rose, into the ward, and bribes the night guard. McMurphy and Chief prepare to escape, inviting Billy to come with them but Billy isn’t ready to leave the hospital and wants a “date” with Candy. After the night nurse Ratched arrives in the morning and sees that most of the patients passed out drunk. She discovers Billy and Candy together. Annoyed Ratched threatens Billy to inform his mother about the party Billy is overwhelmed with fear. Miss Ratched has him placed in the doctor’s office to wait for the doctor to arrive, where he commits suicide. Furious McMurphy tries to choke Ratched. Rumors spre- ad that McMurphy has escaped in order to avoid being taken „upstairs”. Later that night, Chief sees McMurphy being returned to his bed. He disco- vers that McMurphy has lobotomy scars on his forehead, and in an act of mercy, smothers his friend with a pillow. Chief finally throws the hydrothera- py cart through the window and escapes into the night, cheered on by Taber.